Who are The Germans?

In "Just Enough for the City," the Germans are proselytizers who pretend to be humble and choose their words carefully. Their young leader talks about his particular prophet and promises the usual remedies, but fails to understand the narrator's point about how most groups find their greatest success among blacks. The schedule-bound Germans insist on visiting when only senior citizens are home but refuse to interrupt their communion with televisions. The narrator lets them in, but they are ill prepared to debate, having only conceptual faith that cannot define love, which is what he searches for. The narrator offers a parable. A young man intent on suicide, whose answer the missionaries cannot provide without looking in their Bibles, and the Germans depart, never to return.